Making Waves

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By Cassandra King

Publisher Description

The first novel by the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Sunday Wife, now reissued in paperback.

In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's new shop, Making Waves, that causes ripples throughout the small southern community.

In a sequence of events -- sometimes funny, sometimes tragic -- the lives of Donnette, Tim, and others in their small circle of family and friends are unavoidably affected. Once the waves of change surge through Zion County, the lives of its people are forever altered.

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9 Reviews

3.0

Madeline🤍✨

Created 6 months ago

“small town southern drama. could’ve used a family tree tbh. ending was awful. felt like a bad episode of friday night lights.”

Shannon Davis

Created 9 months ago

“This book is filled with Southern charm, humor, family drama, and quirky characters that you'll like and probably even despise. I truly enjoy small-town fiction, whether it's romance or women's fiction, and I am also fond of the way this author writes, but I felt the story's plot was a bit lacking and the ending was somewhat disappointing. I'd still recommend this author because her other books are wonderful!”

Jaz

Created over 1 year ago

Samantha Duncan

Created over 2 years ago

Nichol

Created about 4 years ago

“To say that I hated this book would be an understatement. I cannot think of one single thing about this monstrosity that I liked. There are several things I noticed that makes me seriously question who Cassandra King is as a person. I believe those things will become clear as you read the rest of this review. I have decided to do this review in the form of bullet points. Each bullet point represents yet another thing I found wrong with Making Waves by Cassandra King. *Racism/homophobia. While reading this book, I found several instances of major prejudice including racial and homophobic slurs. If the plot were about characters that overcome these things, I might could overlook it. However, that is not the case here. The racism and homophobia found throughout are irrelevant to the storyline and therefore unnecessary and quite frankly disgusting. *Sexism. This book is written as if it takes place in the 1950s or before considering what little respect is given to women. However, you find out about half way through that this actually takes place in 1985. Granted women in 1985 may not have been given the same respect, permissions, etc as they have today, but they certainly were allowed to drive and go to college. In King's world however, women are expected to get married, have children and make sure supper is on the table when their husbands return from work. One character actually mentions that women learning to drive is considered to be absurd. Gross. *Plot. What exactly is the plot of this book? After completing it, I am still not entirely sure. Truth is, there are so many subplots occurring throughout that there really is no real plot to speak of. That might not be so bad except that absolutely none of the subplots actually come to fruition. They are mentioned for a page or two and then never brought up again. *Characters. The characters are absolutely horrendous. Words can truly not describe how awful they are. They are not only racist, homophobic, and sexist, but they're also uneducated and incredibly naïve and immature. None of the characters know how to use proper grammar so reading this book in first person was nauseating as it meant that grammar was completely thrown out the window throughout the entire book. The maturity level of these characters is astoundingly low. They are all supposed to be adults but every single one acts like a child in grade school. There are several pages dedicated to arguments between two sisters, one in her sixties, the other in her eighties. Instead of sounding like the mature adults they should be at their advanced ages, they sound like five year olds fighting over a coveted toy. *Snooze-fest. Apart from constantly making me angry, I found this book brought about one other "emotion" - boredom. Absolutely nothing interesting happens ever. *Actions of the characters. Della spends the majority of her chapter listing off all of the things she tells Jesus every night before bed. It's fine that she prays, but this isn't relevant to any subplot so I therefore view reading multiple pages about it as a waste of time. Ellis spends most of hers complaining about her sister's love interest and occasionally saying ridiculous things like believing Jesus didn't have any goals in life. Donnette spends almost two whole chapters trying to keep her husband from moving forward with his life and achieving his goals. Ew. *The ending. I have never read a worse ending to a book in my life. I can't call it anticlimactic because there was no build up to begin with. But Donnette does something absolutely horrendous that ruins the lives of others and it just ends there. You're left with this awful feeling in your stomach and thinking the world is a terrible place. I was more than a little disappointed with the entire book but especially the ending. Because I had hoped the ending might save the book at least a little. That's why I continued to read even though I was not enjoying it at all. However, the ending simply made it worse. So. Much. Worse.”